Manifold Group
VC Fund
Chicago, United States
Manifold Group is a VC fund in Chicago focused on Software and Blockchain. Manifold brings together the people, technology, processes, and capital to accelerate growth for companies at all stages. Manifold Holdings has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 20%
Last updated:
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Industries Manifold Group invests in
Stages Manifold Group invests in
Countries Manifold Group invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (50%)
- Blockchain 3 (30%)
- FinTech 2 (20%)
- Events 1 (10%)
- Ethereum 1 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (60%)
- Series A 2 (20%)
- Series B 1 (10%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (10%)
Country
- United States 7 (70%)
- Canada 1 (10%)
- Hong Kong 1 (10%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Matthew Anarde
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
Matthew Anarde
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Matt Schultze
General Counsel
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General Counsel | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Joseph Dwyer
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Sean Johnson
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yei Finance a pioneering decentralized, non-custodial money market protocol. | $2M / Seed / Dec 14, 2024 | ||
| Thruster is a DEX for the builders, yield seekers, and traders on Blast. | $7.5M / Seed / Apr 18, 2024 | ||
| MONAD is a proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain and decentralized computation platform that combines the best of performance and portability. | $225M / Series A / Apr 09, 2024 | ||
| Elixir is a decentralized protocol that enables full composability for integrations by providing computationally secure, algorithmic market-making across CEXs and DEXs. | $8M / Series B / Mar 12, 2024 | ||
| YellowBird is an online marketplace connecting businesses to the right environmental, health, and safety professionals simply and easily. | $6.3M / Seed / Apr 19, 2023 | ||
| Crafty is a food and drink company that helps offices craft better workplaces with food, beverage, events, and alcohol management. It works with offices to elevate happiness by providing snacks, beverages, alcohol, and cool happy hour events. From hot coffee to cold brew coffee, from kegs of craft beer to bottles of Bud Light, from LaCroix to CokeZero, from coffee cups to plastic silverware, and from fully stocked office kitchens to poppin’ events and tastings, they offer a truly comprehensive product portfolio.Crafty was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States. | $10M / Series A / Apr 26, 2022 | ||
| PTO Exchange helps companies and employees transform the value of paid time off. With PTO Exchange, you can trade some of your unused time off for goods and services to make your next vacation even better, you can donate to any non-profit, or you can share some of your time with a fellow employee. | $5.4M / Seed / Mar 03, 2022 | ||
| Talkatoo makes and sells dictation software for professionals.Our customers are busy professionals – doctors, veterinarians, and lawyers – who have high hourly bill rates and hectic schedules; their time is valuable. Driven by liability management and professional regulation, their documentation requirements are rigorous. We save our customerstime, so they can get more done or enjoy more leisure time. By using our product, a professional with a bill rate of $200/hour can increase billings by approximately $50,000. This assumes a time savings on one hour per workday. Talkatoo works in all software on both PC and Mac. This includes Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Practice Management Software (PMS) systems, which are used for record-keeping in almost all medical and veterinary practices.Our product roadmap is to have a cross-platform solution that will work just about anywhere: in a web browser, as an Android or iOS keyboard, and in PC and Mac applications.The Company has over 240 paying customers and 400+ seats sold. The Company’s monthly recurring revenue exceeds USD $20,000. | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 30, 2021 | ||
| Phood’s connects campuses to digital payments | $3M / Seed / Aug 23, 2021 | ||
| Banyan is the receipt data infrastructure platform powering innovation in commerce. Our first-of-its-kind platform makes it easy for merchants, banks, and fintechs to securely collaborate with each other to realize value from item-level receipt data intelligence, controls, and personalization. As an infrastructure layer fintech, we help ourplatform partners unlock and activate item-level receipt data to power their commercial and consumer applications at scale. Our partners utilize our infrastructure to deliver products, marketing, and servicing experiences that unlock operating efficiencies, revenue growth, and better customer experiences. Uses for our platform include:Customizing Card Rewards & Benefits: Precision receipt data powered personalization of card rewards, benefits, marketing, and servicing for general purpose rewards cards and cobrand partnership cards.Enhancing Card-Linked Shopping Offers: Using SKU-level data to enable offer customization (category, exclusions, brand, or product-level), improve revenue attribution, and grow engagement.Fraud Management: Providing item-level receipt data clarity in banking apps for cardholders, and enabling servicing agent efficiency for card disputes and chargebacks.Expense Management: Enabling business card receipt data directly into expense platforms to reduce manual reporting, speed reconciliations, and improve spend controls & out of policy reimbursements.Item-level Payment Reconciliation: Going beyond the 'total amount' and reconciling cardholder and virtual payments transactions at the item level for improved spread management. | $10M / Seed / Jul 30, 2021 |
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FAQ
What does Manifold Group invest in?
Manifold Group invests primarily in Software, Blockchain and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at Manifold Group includes Matthew Anarde (Founding Partner), Matthew Anarde (Founding Partner) and Matt Schultze (General Counsel). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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